There are hundreds of top posts in the government, including nearly a hundred federal judicial positions, vacant and the Obama Administration’s record on making nominations and getting confirmations is lacking.

I’m going to have more to say about the Libya memo the Administration released yesterday. But I just wanted to point out something about the structure of it. Here’s the first paragraph: This memorandum memorializes advice this Office provided to you, prior to the commencement of recent United States military operations in Libya, regarding the [...]

Josh Gerstein provides Lindsey Graham a soap box to complain that his efforts to craft a grand compromise with the Administration on Gitmo stalled in May. “I thought we were close to getting a deal,” Graham told POLITICO last week. “I had some meetings where I walked out of the White House and said, ‘This [...]

The White House Ethics Czar, Norman Eisen, has gotten himself nominated to serve as Ambassador in one of the greatest places on earth, Prague, Czech Republic. To replace the function of Ethics Czar, the White House has announced that White House Counsel Bob Bauer will take over, and Steven Croley (who worked on the campaign) [...]

This exchange is one of the most telling from the entire Kagan hearing today (note; we’ve edited this exchange for length; here’s the full exchange; also, while you’re watching, keep an eye on the body language of the bearded man sitting behind Kagan, White House Counsel Bob Bauer). It’s striking, first of all, because Lindsey [...]

I just got back from driving across the rust belt – Syracuse, Buffalo, Cleveland, Toledo, MI – and am catching up on all the interesting conversations you’ve been having this week while I was celebrating my mom’s birthday (thanks, once again, to bmaz for watching the liquor cabinet while I was gone). So for the [...]

I think Bob Bauer’s op-ed had a few strong points, except that he was way too naive about how the Plame outing worked.

The MDP and Obama campaign are suing the GOP over their plans to conduct vote-caging based on lists of homes in foreclosure.